As an OptIPuter partner, EVL participated at this year’s SC06 Conference showcasing SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment advancements. SAGE is specialized middleware that simultaneously enables human-to-human communication and data-sharing communication on variable-sized tiled displays connected via optical networks. At SC06, SAGES’s new network service - ‘Visualcasting’ that enables two or more users to share application content in sending multi-gigabit streams as required was successfully demonstrated between OptIPuter partners on-site and via remote participation (Dutch Research Consortium/SARA High Performance Networking & Insight Services Group; UIC/EVL and StarLight).

SAGE demonstrations took place at the following SC06 exhibit booths:

• Apple Computer
• California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Center for Earth Observation Applications (CEOA) at University of California San Diego (UCSD)
• Pacific Northwest GigaPoP and ResearchChannel (University of Michigan, School of Information)
• Purdue University, Envision Center for Data Perceptualization and the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

PhD candidate Byungil Jeong’s also presented a technical paper discussing SAGE research, “High-Performance Dynamic Graphics Streaming for Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment”. EVL co-Director, Jason Leigh presented “Global Lambda Visualization Facility and SAGE Visualcasting”, and Associate Director, Maxine Brown presented “TransLight and GLIF”, both from the National LambdaRail SC06 booth on the show floor.